Quantifying cause-related mortality by weighting multiple causes of death

Piffaretti, Clara; Moreno‐Betancur, Margarita; Lamarche-Vadel, Agathe; Rey, Grégoire

doi:10.2471/blt.16.172189

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“…13 The Queensland Cancer Register uses all the clinical information available to determine the cause of death for all melanoma patients. However, given the very high proportion of "cured" people diagnosed with melanoma 14 and the likelihood that there are multiple causes of death for any individual, 15 it is possible that a diagnosis of melanoma increases the potential for the cause of death to be coded as melanoma.…”

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Long‐term deaths from melanoma according to tumor thickness at diagnosis

Baade

Whiteman

Janda

et al. 2020

Intl Journal of Cancer

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There is little long-term follow-up information about how the number of melanoma deaths and case fatality vary over time according to the measured thickness of melanoma at diagnosis. This population-based longitudinal cohort study examines patterns and trends in case fatality among 44,531 people in Queensland (Australia) diagnosed with a single invasive melanoma (International Classification of Diseases for Oncology, third revision [ICD-O-3], C44, Morphology 872-879) between 1987 and 2011, including 11,883 diagnosed between 1987 and 1996, with up to 20 years follow-up (to December 2016). The 20-year case fatality increased by thickness, with the percentage of melanoma deaths within 20 years of diagnosis being up to 4.8% for melanomas with measured thickness <0.80 mm, 10.6% for tumors 0.8 to <1.0 mm and generally more than 30% for melanomas measuring 3 mm and more. For melanomas <1.0 mm, most deaths occurred between 5 and 20 years after diagnosis, whereas for thicker melanomas the reverse was true with most deaths occurring within the first 5 years. Five-year case fatality decreased over successive calendar time periods for melanomas <1.0 mm, but not for melanomas ≥1.0 mm. These findings demonstrate that the time course for fatal melanomas varies markedly according to tumor thickness at diagnosis. Improved understanding of the patient factors and characteristics of melanomas, in addition to tumor thickness, which increase the likelihood of progression, is needed to guide clinical diagnosis, communication with patients and ongoing surveillance pathways of patients with potentially fatal lesions.

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Long‐term deaths from melanoma according to tumor thickness at diagnosis

Baade

Whiteman

Janda

et al. 2020

Intl Journal of Cancer

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“…Second, this study does not include information on multiple causes of death which might have limited understanding of the contribution of other conditions to a death. 29 Although VA works well for some diseases such as measles, whooping cough which are of public health importance and bear specific symptoms, it might not be useful in cases of diseases of immense public health importance which have less specific symptoms such as HIV or malaria. Third, though we acknowledge the possibility of under-reporting of deaths attributable to tuberculosis (TB) or HIV as they are generally stigmatised, various government initiatives have already significantly curbed the prevalence of these diseases in the study area.…”

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Non-communicable diseases are the leading cause of mortality in rural Birbhum, West Bengal, India: a sex-stratified analysis of verbal autopsies from a prospective cohort, 2012–2017

Kumar¹,

Barik²,

Mazumdar³

et al. 2020

BMJ Open

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ObjectivesThere is a dearth of data on causes of death in rural India, which impedes identification of public health priorities to guide health interventions. This study aims to offer insights from verbal autopsies, to understand the pattern and distribution of causes of death in a rural area of Birbhum District, West Bengal, India.DesignCauses of death data were retrieved from a prospective vital event surveillance system.SettingThe Birbhum Population Project, a Health and Demographic Surveillance System, West Bengal, India.ParticipantsBetween January 2012 and December 2017, all deaths were recorded.Main outcome measuresTrained Surveyors tracked all deaths prospectively and used a previously validated verbal autopsy (VA) tool to record causes of death. Experienced physicians reviewed completed VA forms, and assigned cause of death using the 10th version of International Classification of Diseases. In addition to cause-specific mortality fraction, cause-specific crude death rate (CDR) among males and females were estimated.ResultsA total of 2320 deaths (1348 males and 972 females) were recorded. An estimated CDR was 708/100 000. Over half of all deaths (1176 deaths, 50.7%) were attributed to non-communicable diseases (NCDs), with nearly 30% of all deaths attributed to circulatory system disorders; whereas 24.2% and 3.9% deaths were due to cerebrovascular diseases and ischaemic heart disease, respectively. Equal percent (13%) of males died from external causes and from infectious and parasitic diseases, and 11% died from respiratory system-related diseases. Among females, 12% died from infectious and parasitic diseases. Among children aged 0–4 years, 50% of all male deaths and 45% of all female deaths were attributed to conditions in the perinatal period.ConclusionsNCDs are the leading cause of death among adults in a select population of rural Birbhum, India. Health programmes for rural India should prioritise plans to mitigate deaths due to NCDs.

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“…Therefore, several researchers preferred to estimate HCV mortality if HCV was mentioned anywhere on the death certificate, 2‐6 (ie all 4 examples in Table 1 would be counted). However, some scholars have argued that the mortality estimated according to this definition might overestimate the true mortality burden 9,10 . For example, in Example 4 in Table 1, the certifying physician recorded HCV in Part 2 of the death certificate, indicating that HCV did not play a significant role in the chain of events directly leading to death.…”

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“…However, some scholars have argued that the mortality estimated according to this definition might overestimate the true mortality burden. 9,10 For example, in Example 4 in Table 1, the certifying physician recorded HCV in Part 2 of the death certificate, indicating that HCV did not play a significant role in the chain of events directly leading to death.…”

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Hepatitis C virus infection mortality trends according to three definitions with special concern for the baby boomer birth cohort

Sheu

Liang

2020

Journal of Viral Hepatitis

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Cause-specific mortality data are the most commonly used health data for monitoring changes in the burden of disease at the national level. Several studies have used the national mortality data to illustrate the changes in mortality from hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in the United States. 1-6 The official published mortality data 7 were compiled according to the underlying cause of death (UCOD), which is defined as '(a) the disease or injury which initiated the train of morbid events leading directly to death, or (b) the circumstances of the accident or violence which produced the fatal injury'. 8 To ensure the comparability of cause of death (COD) statistics across countries, the World Health Organization designed a standard

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Quantifying cause-related mortality by weighting multiple causes of death

Cited by 45 publications

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Long‐term deaths from melanoma according to tumor thickness at diagnosis

Long‐term deaths from melanoma according to tumor thickness at diagnosis

Non-communicable diseases are the leading cause of mortality in rural Birbhum, West Bengal, India: a sex-stratified analysis of verbal autopsies from a prospective cohort, 2012–2017

Hepatitis C virus infection mortality trends according to three definitions with special concern for the baby boomer birth cohort

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